return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day agoGavin Newsom is Not a Progressivewww.currentaffairs.orgexternal-linkmessage-square164linkfedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down143file-textcross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·16 hours agoHistory actually shows that crying “that candidate isn’t progressive enough” ends in actual fascism.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·12 hours agoExactly. Progressives should learn their place and do what they’re told. It’s not like there’s enough of us to change things.
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down4·edit-212 hours agoWho benefits from this anti-Newsom rhetoric? Trump and Co, not progressives.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-212 hours agoWhat’s anti-Newsom about getting progressives ready to hold their nose as usual? Besides, he’s not even the nominee and maybe making him look bad will get some other liberal the win.
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·12 hours agoCongrats, you’ve fallen into the divided party trap. Or is the trap what you’re actually pushing?
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 hours agoI’ve been at that party since I had a Kucinich for President bumper sticker and made a deal with someone in a blue state to vote for Nader. I hate that I have to be a Democrat and don’t want to be one. But I have to be otherwise I can’t make my displeasure known in the primaries.
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·11 hours agoCool. We’re at the I’m more progressive/democrat/socialist than you phase of the argument.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 hours agoCool, we’re at the dismiss anything the other person says part of the argument
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·11 hours agoUpvoted, because we’ve been there for awhile.
minus-squareEugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 hours ago Who benefits from this anti-Newsom rhetoric? People with the ability to reason, and if we have a primary, to choose the best candidate.
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·edit-216 hours agoI suppose in the same way that tornado sirens always ends in a tornado tearing through a trailer park. But I’m sure that this centrist liberal will finally be the one to beat fascism
minus-square0ndead@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·edit-213 hours agoKeep doing the fascist’s work for them
History actually shows that crying “that candidate isn’t progressive enough” ends in actual fascism.
Exactly.
Progressives should learn their place and do what they’re told.
It’s not like there’s enough of us to change things.
Who benefits from this anti-Newsom rhetoric? Trump and Co, not progressives.
What’s anti-Newsom about getting progressives ready to hold their nose as usual?
Besides, he’s not even the nominee and maybe making him look bad will get some other liberal the win.
Congrats, you’ve fallen into the divided party trap. Or is the trap what you’re actually pushing?
I’ve been at that party since I had a Kucinich for President bumper sticker and made a deal with someone in a blue state to vote for Nader.
I hate that I have to be a Democrat and don’t want to be one. But I have to be otherwise I can’t make my displeasure known in the primaries.
Cool. We’re at the I’m more progressive/democrat/socialist than you phase of the argument.
Cool, we’re at the dismiss anything the other person says part of the argument
Upvoted, because we’ve been there for awhile.
People with the ability to reason, and if we have a primary, to choose the best candidate.
I suppose in the same way that tornado sirens always ends in a tornado tearing through a trailer park. But I’m sure that this centrist liberal will finally be the one to beat fascism
Keep doing the fascist’s work for them